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Missing Since: May 27, 2002 from Mesquite, Texas
Classification: Missing
Date of Birth: April 4, 1975
Age: 27 years old
Height and Weight: 5'11, 170 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. McGriff has a tattoo of the symbol of the constellation Aries on his chest, with the word "Aries" written underneath. His last name, "McGriff," is tattooed on his back. He has the initials "RBX," signifying the Rho Beta Khi fraternity group, tattooed on his arm. McGriff's nickname is T-Roy.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A black shirt and red Nike pants or shorts.

Details of Disappearance

McGriff was last seen getting out of a vehicle in the East Mall area of Mesquite, Texas on May 27, 2002. The car was occupied by his cousin and two others. He told them he would be gone for only a few hours, but he never returned. He has never been heard from again. Few details are available in McGriff's case.
Grand Prairie, Texas police are investigating McGriff's disappearance.

Missing date matches
height matches
age is very close
and they look similar to me. Tattoos aren't going to help since skeletal remains, but dental is making me question since no mention of gold teeth on McGriff. There is about 9 to 10 hours driving time between the two, but you never know how long someone is willing to travel to get rid of a body. Thoughts, suggestions, directions, anything! HELP!

I think the pics look alike, I just can't believe that they have no description on McGriff's dentals. I also found his case on Charley Project.(It lists nothing about his dentals either)http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...ff_latroy.html
I would say turn it in. I usually contact Rocky Wells at the Doe Network first when wondering about and UID compared to a missing person, he usually knows if they were compared or not. Good luck!!

i don't think it hurts to check with the LE, but seems like the age and height are off enough that its probably not a match. and i agree, something as notable as gold teeth probably would have made its way to latroy's records...

Were the gold teeth on Doe Network perhaps an error? The current version of the page says nothing about the UID having gold teeth and his Namus dentals don't mention any such thing either
All his teeth are marked as natural except one that was missing postmortem. There was caries and fractures noted.

Dang, I've almost talked myself into submitting this. It seems like a no-brainer that they would have compared these two already, but the only rule-outs listed for this UID are Yul Kennedy and Michael Way.

He disappeared under very suspicious circumstances, car was found burned two days later.

One thing I'm not seeing on any Namus or Doe pages is any clothing or anything found with the body. Unless it had been there a long time, and the clothes disintegrated or blew away, this seems like someone deliberately left the body there naked (convenient that I65 is close by).

He disappeared under very suspicious circumstances, car was found burned two days later.

One thing I'm not seeing on any Namus or Doe pages is any clothing or anything found with the body. Unless it had been there a long time, and the clothes disintegrated or blew away, this seems like someone deliberately left the body there naked (convenient that I65 is close by).

From the reconstruction I donít think their builds match. Whatís sad is that there are a lot of small poor towns north of this area that really donít follow up on missing person cases at all and donít use namus etc